Exploratory study of the lateral body sway predictability as frame of reference for gait rehabilitation following a total knee arthroplasty.

Aims: The aim of the present study was to investigate whether the predictability of fronto-parallel trunk rotations (lateral body sway) could serve as a frame of reference to monitor recovery after total knee arthroplasty (TKA).

Methods: Before surgery, 11 TKA patients were asked to perform a treadmill walking task at three different speeds. In addition, their gait abilities were scored on three standard clinical walking tests.

Instability Severity Index Score predicts recurrent shoulder instability after arthroscopic Bankart repair.

Purpose: The Instability Severity Index (ISI) Score was developed to preoperatively assess the risk of recurrent shoulder instability after an arthroscopic Bankart repair. This study aims to validate the use of ISI Score for predicting the risk of recurrence after an arthroscopic Bankart repair in a heterogeneous population and proposes an appropriate cut-off point for treating patients with an arthroscopic Bankart repair or otherwise.

Methods: This study analysed 99 shoulders after a traumatic dislocation that underwent arthroscopic Bankart repair with at least 3 years follow-up.

Inertial-Sensor-Based Monitoring of Sample Entropy and Peak Frequency Changes in Treadmill Walking during Recovery after Total Knee Arthroplasty.

This study aimed to investigate whether sample entropy (SEn) and peak frequency values observed in treadmill walking could provide physical therapists valuable insights into gait rehabilitation following total knee arthroplasty (TKA). It was recognized that identifying movement strategies that during rehabilitation are initially adaptive but later start to hamper full recovery is critical to meet the clinical goals and minimize the risk of contralateral TKA. Eleven TKA patients were asked to perform clinical walking tests and a treadmill walking task at four different points in time (pre-TKA, 3, 6, and 12 months post-TKA).

More Predictable and Less Automatized Movements during Walking -not during Repetitive Punching- in Knee Osteoarthritis.

Using the non-affected leg as stable frame of reference for the affected leg in gait assessment in knee osteoarthritis (KO) fails due to compensatory mechanisms. Assessing the cyclical movements of the upper extremities in a frequency-controlled repetitive punching task may provide an alternative frame of reference in gait assessment in patients with KO. Eleven participants with unilateral KO and eleven healthy controls were asked to perform treadmill walking and repetitive punching.

Acute haematogenous periprosthetic joint infection due to along with coexistent crystalline arthropathy after total knee arthroplasty: a rare combination.

A man in his 60s, with a medical history of gout, underwent total knee arthroplasty of his right knee followed by expeditious rehabilitation. Seven months after surgery, he was referred to the emergency ward with sudden onset of pain and swelling of his right knee accompanied with fever. Further inquiry revealed no trauma, infection or skin lesions besides a tongue bite several weeks earlier.